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Louisiana SPCA says St. Bernard man dropped off different pit bull before video of dog abuse

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Asani Woods, left, was booked on the charge of aggravated cruelty in dog's beating. Johnny Dominick, right, initially was booked on drug-related charges but later also was booked on the charge of being an accessory to aggravated cruelty of a dog, after a video of the animal being beaten by Woods was found on Dominick's phone, according to the St. Bernard Sheriff's Office. Dominick admitted to taking the video of the beating, according Sheriff's Office.

Also on Tuesday, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office stated that the video released of the man beating the dog occurred in December 2012, a year earlier than sheriff's officials had stated on Monday.

The statements raise questions as to whether the pit bull seen the video survived the attack. Sheriff's Office spokesman Steve Cannizaro said on Tuesday that the Sheriff's Office is investigating the matter.

Asani Woods, 21, of the 2400 block of St. Matthew Circle, was booked on charges of aggravated cruelty to his dog on March 28, after Woods was identified as the man in the video, according to the Sheriff's Office. The video released by the Sheriff's Office shows a man lifting a pit bull off the ground by its neck and then taking her to the trash, which the dog apparently had scattered across the kitchen floor.

St. Bernard Sheriff Jimmy Pohlmann said on Monday that Woods had told sheriff's officials that he had taken Tiger to the SPCA facility in Algiers, but Cannizaro and Haefele said on Tuesday that Woods' statement was inaccurate. Neither the St. Bernard nor Jefferson shelters had any records of Woods dropping of a pit bull to them either.

Woods dropped off a pit bull to the SPCA shelter on the West Bank on April 1, 2012, according to Haefele and Cannizaro. Haefele said the pit bull Woods dropped off that month was a stray dog that showed no signs of abuse and that while SPCA tried to identify its owner, they were unable to, and that the dog was euthanized later that month.

She said the pit bull given to the shelter in April 2012 was a male dog, whereas the one the in video was a female dog.

Cannizaro said on Tuesday that the video was made on Dec. 14, 2012.

While the sheriff previously had said that the video was made in December 2013, Cannizaro said that there initially was a mistake identifying the video's proper time stamp.

And while the Sheriff's Office stated on Monday that the pit pull in the video had been taken to the SPCA shelter on the West Bank in January 2014 and euthanized there that month, Haefele said that there had been some "conversational confusion" during a conversation between an SPCA dispatcher and a sheriff's official.